The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-11-09
NO. Is.
NOTED NEGIsESSES.
Notorious Men EnOuSh Now for "a Few
Notorious Women of Color.
tFrom the Mail ana Expressly

1 notorious women of Color.
tFrom the Mail and Expressly
Mr.. Il, Thomas Fortune is one of the
ablest and best known colored men in
the country. He is man Of 35 or there
aoouts, with keen, intellectual face and
q quick interest in everything that con-
Germs the future Of the colored people of
rortuno was asked Il few days since,
about the women OF your race who have
done the most for it and ior themselves"
"Colored women have hardly had op-
portunity to do much that is sensation
al" he replied. "Ihey haven't had
time. But still there me several who
are prominent among their own people
and who have earned solid reputation.
lake Washington, for instance. Colored
women of the best class there don't take
much to marrying. They get along
better than the men, and usually devote
| themselves to their work and succeed
well III 1t. The most prominent colored
women i'll Washington, in the best sense
OF the word, are the teachers-such
women as Miss Nj. b. Briggs, professor
OF English in Howard University, most
talented woman; or Josephine j. Turpin,
OF the same school, who is frequent
contributor to newspapers; or Lucy
MouItop, who is the efficient principal
OF big training school; or Mary Nalle
or Marion Shadd-all highly cultured
women, respected and esteemed by
those who know them.
'ln Philadelphia thcrc is the skilful
woman physician, DR.. Caroline V. An
derson. She is the daughter Of William
still, wealthy colorcd merchant and
one of the directors Of the Underground
Railroad, of which he has written the
I history
graduate Of the medical department of
! Howard University and enjoys a big
practice. Philadelphia is the home Of
other women OF character and ability.
There is Mrs Fanny jackson Coppin,
! me lecturer, who devotes most of her
! time to the institution for colored youth
there, and Mrs. Gertrude Moselle, who
used to conduct the womans depart
ment on tho New York Freeman, and
who has written for the New York Times
and tie Philadelphia Press rs well as
Ior papers published in the interest of
the negro race. Mrs. Moselle is mem
Der of the Woman's National Press AS
soclatlon, the only member of her race,
Mrs. Frances f. Harper, the temper
nncG lecturer and writer, has lived much
i'll Philadelphia also.
''ln Boston one OF the best known
colortd women IS a modiste, whose eve
Tor effects III inbric, form and color has
made hcr rich. Other coIorcd women
Who have widor reputation than anyof
tncSc are Marie Sellka, tho prima donna
soprano, who was born in atchcz and
whose voice is of such Rwo octness, purity
and compass that musical critics have
called her second only TO Patti. Nine.
I Sclika has taken Gerstor's place in the
concert III Boston, and has sung before
/ the crowned heads of Europe.
"AIadamo Nellie Brown Mitchell is
another musician with n mechanical turn
OF mind. She has invented and patented
two or three appliances now Ill common
use by musical instructors. Equally
wcil-kuown in another branch Of the fine
arts is Elmonia lev e., the sculptor.
she is nm Atro.lndian, and was born in
New York State, but now has her studio
III lone, where shC has plenty Of com
missions and has douc some fine work.
The Old 3rrowmaker and his raughtor'
Is one OF her best known proddctins aud
is owned in England.
"lda B. Wells lola whose suit for
damages uudcr Mississippi laws for be-
ing iorcibly thrust out of passenger car
III Memphis by three or four white men
brought her before the public few
years ago, is probably the best known of
colorcd women journalists, and Miss NJ.
i, Lambert is pootcss of genius. The
wife Ol the kav. Frank Grimke, of
jacksonville, Fla, formerly a Miss
Forten, OF Phiadcl phia, is young wo-
man, but already widely known.
asked Mr.. Fortune if he knew any
colorcd women who were reputed
wealthy, but he did not seem especially
interested III that branch OF the subject,
and | respected his Ycticence. 1t would
not be difficult, however, to pick out Il
dozen colored women i'll the country
whose property in the aggregate might
be expressed con information and be-
lief" BY seven figures. In such list
would come the Gloucesters, the rich
boarhing' house keepers OF Brooklyn;
Miss Amanda Eubanks, Of Rome, Ga,
whose White father left her $40 900; Mrs.
Mary a. Wilson, IL wealthy Florida wo-
man; Mrs. Mary Peasants, Of San
francisco, who holds something more
than $50, 600 IN Government bonds,
owns ranch and has some city real
estate; Mrs. James Th, mas, OF St.
Louis, who is worth { nething like
$500, 900, and whose barber shop, the
"Llndell', is the most luxurious in the
country, and Mrs. Catherine Blake, who
owns the Kenmore Hotel at Albany,
which Is reputcd worth $l50,000 Miss
Drake, young colored woman of Nash,
n o., has taken the prize for the best
production of cotton at all the State
fairs, and other Afro-American women
are doing solid industrial work.
! There arc two colored women in the
ranks of the law, Miss Florence Ray, of
Brooklyn, and Mrs NJ. S. Cary. of
Washington. There is at least ono col
ored minister, the Rev. Mrs. Freeman.
of Providence. There has been one
woman at the head of 81 newspaper pub
lished IN the interest Of Afro-Americans,
Miss Carrie Bragg, who for some time
edited tho Lancet, at Petersburg, Va.
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